Hey guys, something I’ve been contemplating this month is consolidating the link services I use. Currently I use quite a lot of them UAW, Article Samurai, Article Ranks, Linkamotion, ezarticlelink, abc plugin (automatic backlink creator) and most recently blog blueprint.
As per my case study post that I did on the warrior forums that I linked to in a previous income report it helped me show some of the services I feel work great. I was really surprised how AMR was so effective for one of the websites and oddly the AMR + UAW site did not perform as well. Linkamotion is #2 and so far I like that network a lot, it’s like blog blueprint but I find it a lot less annoying for uploading articles since I usually do it from within The best spinner’s “post to blog option”. BTW, TBS is on sale HALF OFF for a few days so make sure to pick it up if you haven’t already.
I am currently going to rethink the seo tools I recommend and currently AMR is definitely #1, especially considering it’s a one time fee. For #2 both Linkamotion and Article Ranks work really well for me currently, I’m not sure which one I would put ahead of the other but something to consider is that if you have a PR2+ domain that is not making you money it can be worth it to put it inside the AR system and let it build you credits, this will allow you to link out to up to 5 domains. I’ll probably do a post on buying high PR domains in the future for those who are not sure but it’s pretty simple and you can use a service like www.dropday.com to find them.
Ezarticlelink is also a strong contender for #2, I especially like that it’s only $34. Also, if you need your articles spinned they do it for a very reasonable $3 per article last I checked, really great service to use and then export the articles to other networks :). I mentionned it to the email list last month and I received quite a few questions on how to setup the domains for it since it’s a bit different then other networks. I’ll probably do an “official” review post about it soon.
Article Samurai and Unique Article Wizard are interesting contenders… I’ve been getting success with Article Samurai but it’s definitely a lot more expensive since it is $100/month. Unique article wizard used to work really well for me but nowadays between AMR and Article Samurai I do not feel it’s as good, I also heard rumors AS submits to the UAW network anyway. I would definitely recommend linkamotion over it since it’s less expensive and a separate network.
Build my rank… I get a lot of people asking me about this network, have I used it? Do I recommend it? Yes… But No. The reason why a lot of people recommend it is yes it does work, it has increased my rankings a lot BUT these rankings are ALWAYS lost for me 2-3 months later, as if I had not done any BMR posts. That would be acceptable with me using other networks but at $1-$2.5 a post on BMR (it demands 100% unique submissions, so no spinning) this gets expensive for temporary rankings. Anyway, I think it’s a good last resort option for expensive keywords you want to rank for but after using it for 10 months or so I stopped 2 months ago. I did not mention it before because I always suspected that I was losing my rankings. I would use it for multiple keywords, and exclusively for a few keywords and time after time I would see myself lose the rankings gained when only BMR is used.. If you combine a lot of services you might not notice the drop, but I did several times on multiple websites.
ABC plugin is also another one I have been silently testing over the past months (and only $30/month when I bought it, hopefully still is) and overall it seems to work great. Basically you submit one of your websites to the network and in exchange you can get up to 500 “sidebar” blogroll links to your website and they constantly rotate. Before using this plugin, I really did not believe blogroll links were important but after seeing the ranking changes from using this plugin I definitely want to look into doing more blogroll exchanges with other people. Anyway, this one is also on my “to post about” list. Gonna do a few more tests just to be sure it’s still as effective by itself as it used to be but I really like how it gives some variety from all the article distribution services I use.
Blog Blueprint, as per Becker’s suggestion I started trying it, so far I’m not too sure how effective it is, we’ll see! I’ll soon test how many of my posts were indexed and try to get them all indexed, that might work very well.
Social Bookmarking
Currently, this has been working well for me. I’m currently testing using bookmarking demon and will post on the results shortly. Also, for those who will use my affiliate link for BMD (any of the links so far on the site), you can confirm if it says “vaalion.thelinkback” when you checkout) I will share with you my currently 2k+ list of sites that I submit bookmarks too. It will probably be reduced as me and my VA are working to remove the problem sites but you can expect the list to be finalized in a week and I’ll do an extended blog posts about it showing my ranking changes from before using BMD to currently. I’m honestly surprised by how effective this is for the effort of just doing some spun descriptions. The real effort is in finding a list of websites (the initial list that comes with the software is only like 50 or so, common high PR websites such as digg, stumbleupon, fark etc.) and also sorting the ones that do not work from the problematic ones. Also, filling out the submission categories for the first run can take some time but after that’s it’s ready to go and no monthly subscription. I can’t believe I did not try this software before it’s been out for so many years… Probably because they do not have a trial and I was hiring mixed comments about it. From what I knew most people were using it for backlinks to backlinks to get them indexed, I did not think that direct backlinks to the money site would be so effective.
Linkwheel testing using Web 2.0s
So all the way back in may I showed a diagram of a linkwheel I have been using that includes domains and web 2.0 properties. Surprisingly, I do not think they are worth all the time I put into them so far. Ya they help with rankings but they take way more time to maintain. Instead of submitting articles linking to my main sites, they were linking to the web 2.0s in addition to me drip feeding articles to these web 2.0s/domains every so often. Most of these were done manually it really makes me doubt that programs like senuke that mostly use web 2.0s are of any help BY THEMSELVES for rankings. Sure backlink diversity is helpful but I’ve always been able to test services/software by only using it for a specific KW/URL that never had any backlinks and judge the changes. Would love to hear comments of people that might have used web 2.0 creating/posting software and were able to rank up using ONLY those. A the monthly price most of those tools are going at they definitely do not seem worth it to me!
Anyway, I’m gonna start using my aged domains with PR soon and those will probably work well, we will see if those are worth the price of buying the domains and maintaining them for so long. I bought them like 5 months ago and did some new backlinks to them during that period, the PR never has dropped :).
So in conclusion here is where I’m at in terms of doing backlinks, it still works as effectively as before with a few new additions. Also, with article distribution networks to lower the cost I recommend you cycle them, meaning one or two month off one and you re-subscribe. I personally was cycling AR/UAW in the past and I might take a month or two off linkamotion or AS soon since I’ve been using it a lot.
Anything wrong with grinding down and doing it manually? Especially when you are just starting out.
No I did things manually for a while, mostly submitting to article directories. So you could do the AMR stuff manually because it submits to public websites but networks like AR/ezarticlelink and especially linkamotion (where all the blogs are the owner’s) you can’t get those links without subscribing. Not needed when you are first starting anyway, it’s better to focus on building up your website’s content in the first few month’s instead of worrying about backlinks.
I got ezarticlelink for 29 bucks a month yay : ).
Article Ranks – just started yesterday. So far seems nice.
AMR does not perform as well as ezarticlelink for me.
Aged domains are amazing. : ) Got to top 10-20 in 2 weeks + ezarticlelink thanks to aged domains. (2003 PR3 and 1999 PR0).
ya when ezarticlelink performs well for me it destroys the competition, it seems to be working really well again now. Back when I started with it, it was THE BOMB.I think it loss a lot of link juice since my bigger sites had 50+ articles submitted using it so at some point I have links from all the websites in the network… Using new sites with it now and it seems to be just as strong as it always was.
i started out using blog blueprint and fiver services, so far with great success. my first 3-4€ per day are now rolling in after only 1 1/2 months.
next on the list is AMR (do you have a list of german article directories or do you know where i can get one? – i’m gonna buy it next week through your affiliate link when the money’s on my paypal).
i’m really interested in social bookmarking demon but it’s too expensive atm.
the idea of buying some higher PR domains and submitting them to link exchange networks is also great. how much do you pay for PR2 to PR4 sites?
For AMR, just submit an english article with your german anchor texts in the ressource box, I’m pretty sure that will work. Ya BMD is really expensive, it’s why I put off using it for so long, especially since it does not have a trial. It took someone swearing to me that social bookmarking works that made me end up giving it another try.
I bought some Pr 2-4 domains from $10 to $50, it varies a lot depending on their quality and other factors such as their age/dmoz listing etc.
yeah to me it’s very interesting that google doesn’t care too much about which country the links come from. more than 60% of my links to my main (german) project come from U.S. sites (blogblueprint for instance) and a lot of the times i even used english anchor text.
however i’m a little worried that google will one day implement something in their algorithm that messes up my rankings. so i want to look into building a more natural link profile over time.
do you have any thoughts on this? i remember you mentioning that you were targeting french websites with fingerman a while ago.
i guess i will build my own list of german directories then. if you need it, e-mail me 🙂
I barely did french websites, I don’t want to manage them and it’s harder to find article writter/spinners. As for Google implementing an algorithm update one day that would change that well that’s a bit unlikely and even then you can try to get links from relevant german sites anyway for now and it might pay off in the future if that does happen …
yeah the german spinners are kind of a pain in the ass too.
thanks a lot for the replies mate 😉
I think PR4 these days are between 100 and 200 bucks. Sometimes, you can find them for cheaper.
PR3 50-100 maybe. One PR3 sold for 405 on Godaddy recently.
Hey alex i didnt see an income report lately. How are you doing?
it’s coming in a few days, this post was going to be part of the income report that I was writing for September but it was already 1.8k words by itself so I put it first… As for the income report, it’s pretty similar from what I remember but adsense is lower, some of my newer sites that increased last month’s income are now in a google dance :(.
Thanks for your fast replies, good luck getting those sites back up!
Did you used Onlywire? If yes, why could you compare OnlyWire with SB?
Sorry, not “why” obviously 😉 Could you compare OnlyWire with SB? It’s FYI, you can remove this comment if you want.
A long time ago, and it felt pretty useless. The power from SB is that I’m sending 1k+ bookmarks when I’m using it currently and it’s a mix of do/no follow. I was highly suprised this works so effectively but 2 months after my first promotion and the rankings are still staying!
Considering only wire is free, it might be a good free replacement but I can’t say I tested it… It might help somewhat.
ezarticlelink was trying to send a trojan on my PC !!! Dont visit that SITE!!!!!
… I log on it daily (it contains a lot of my spun articles I use for everywhere else) and never had problems, the only thing you ever download from their site is the index.php file to upload to domains you want them to post content on too. I suggest you try to find the real source…
I use BMR and I can confirm that your rankings will drop within 3-4 months.
I just had every page on all my sites drop that I’ve been building BMR links too.
Now this isn’t bashing BMR. It really does work and works great, but fuck, not if you lose your rankings down the road!
I busted my ass writing unique posts every single day on BMR, all for nothing!
Thanks for sharing, honestly I almost NEVER heard about this from others “selling” BMR so I was always very skeptical of why my rankings might be dropping… However it happened again and again on at least 3 different websites I used despite my other URL’s on those sites going up in rankings thanks to other services (meaning it’s not like google was giving a penalty to the site).
I think even those genuinely testing BMR and seeing the increase in rankings also use other tools on the same links or forget to re-check the rankings they specifically tested with BMR to see a drop in rankings.
But ya, BMR really works, but if I use it in the future it’s going to be for high competition keywords that I’m ready to pay $50/month + the monthly BMR fee to keep their rankings. Currently I don’t really have any website that a specific upkeep like that interests me…
A new service on BLF that’s offering 75 links a month on BMR for $60 bucks. No membership needed and they do all the writing. My first posts should be hitting the system any day…will let you know.
I’ve been able to pick up .com PR4 sites for $60 bucks, with some links and some age.
I’ve had a few of them for over 4 months now that I use on ALN and with no drop in PR so far.
Thanks for the post Alex, will have to take a look at ezarticlelink.
cheers
That’s a good idea actually, maybe I should consider paying a trusted seller in the future to do BMR posts for me. Especially at 75 for $60 (less then $1 per post…). I might consider it for my newer sites once they are out of their google dance so I can evaluate the results properly :). Some of those keywords are 20k+/month so $60 on BMR posts might be worth it if it’s the push that helps me go from top 5 to #1.
Great review, i was just gonna ask you what is the most essential software to invest in.
I will try AMR for 5 days, it looks good, ezarticlelink worked amazingly for me too, almost instantly boosting me on huge keywords, however now i lost my ranking on those major keywords…
Do you think it’s because ezarticlelink stops posting after 200 posts when your on the trial period? (i ask because my drop in rankings happened over barely 2-3 days)
So here’s what i’m gonna put money aside for, following your suggestions: tbs, amr, and possibly i’ll try ezarticlelink for one month.
Anything else? any suggestions on absolutely necessary software?
Well your site probably had not received that many backlinks in the past, probably a google dance. I noticed it is happening a lot on my own sites that were made in late 2010/2011 that after a while that I added adsense on and made money, they seem to google dance 5 pages below. Both EZA and AMR are good, the trial on EZA is quite good so many consider AMR first. And it would help that you kept getting links after the 200, I usually submit my first EZA article to a site at 5-15/day, I’m guessing you did more?
i submitted one at the 5-15 rate since the first week of september, saw results less than a week later, i did another article which i submitted at a higher rate in that time, and i saw even better results then.
what rate do you post at on AMR? 700/25 days is like 20-30 daily?
Also i changed my main sites to post only because some seem to get found because of the articles they post for ezarticlelink, and it’s like im not making money on that.
On these, I changed the permissions on the files and did a wildcard redirect from the article folder to my main page, you think that’s safe?
well AMR has a high faillure rate, so while I get anywhere form 400-600 articles 100% successful it tries with ~2.5k sites last I checked. For that reason, I just set it at 100 per 24 hours or so. I’m not too sure on the EZA thing, I haven’t done it in the past…
Hey Alex,
Did you close the thread over at the WF for your case study? Why?
Also if you had a choice for a monthly service, would you go with Blog Blueprint or Linkamotion?
Thanks for the post, I miss these types!
Toki
No, the mods closed it and I was given no reason … got a few PM’s about that.. oh well. I’ll post more pictures about it soon, not much has changed since the last update.
I find linkamotion more convenient to upload articles to but I have no idea which ones performs better right now. The way I have linkamotion setup is that I have a small bot program that respins the article and uploads it from within TBS. Basically, for linkamotion you have to spin an article, upload it to your account (it’s an option from within TBS) and select a category. I have a small bot program that just logs mouse clicks so it does spun article –> post ot blog –> select category –> uncheck post automatically and I let it run until 100 are posted for that blog (it drip feeds at 5 per day so this is enough for 20 days). Once in linkamotion you can mass select the articles and assign them to the proper project within minutes now :). I’ll probably do a post on this actually, I mean it’s really convenient compared to blog blueprint if you know how to do it properly (aka using bots, my time playing wow as served me well :P).
Blog blueprint is 20 posts per day linkamotion is 5 posts per day per project with a max of 10 projects, so 50. For me, each project is linking to a different site so I’m not 100% sure if they care about having multiple projects linking to the same website or not.
Weird they would close such a useful thread.
I would def like to see this bot you use, how to use it in conjunction with linkamotion… Being pretty avid in photoshop using actions and recording them, I am sure I would get the idea. Anything to automate would be great.
I will try out linkamotion since there is a guy on fiverr that will do BB blast for you.
I’ll make a post on it very soon
Thanks for the post and detailed answers Alex.
I hear all the time about getting social links from the likes of FaceBook and Twitter – have you ever used a service that created these sort of things or do you create a FB and twitter account for your sites?
Thanks, John
I did it a LONG time ago when I first started. Yup, people were saying the same shit about facebook/twitter 1-2 years ago. Honestly, I tried it at first and never cared later. I don’t build facebook/twitter for followers now, only for brand reasons. Like for iphone apps I want to create/the link in. I was testing buying +1’s for some pages, but they keep getting removed by Google and I lose my $$… I’ll have to find better/smarter vendors.
I can vouch for everything that was said about BMR. I think Google finally caught on to their network and devalued the links, and yes they add new sites, but they quickly get discovered and devalued as well. It seems Google is catching on to sites like these. I guess even greater measures are going to have to be taken by all the BMR, Linkvana, Blogblueprint, Link Aloha, Linkamotion, and all the other blog networks to hold their link juice. I think the main problem is they just get greedy and push it too far, leave too much of a footprint, etc.
Also, do not knock SEnuke until you try it. I’ve seen very good results from it. In fact it’s the only tool I’m using at the current moment, and all I really need.
Ah awesome, good to hear some positive results from senukex from someone not affiliated…I just never gave senukex an official test, I Tried so many web 2.0s with minor results vs traditional article distribution that I figured automatically created senuke web 2.0s would not be that great..
Do you just create an account, post an article with some links and then ditch it or constantly create new blog posts on your a lot of web 2.0s and sometimes add links to your sites?
Run a SEnuke campaign, get the web 2.0’s up, ditch em, run a new campaign, rinse and repeat.
hey @Becker/Alex
Do you guys know where I can get a cool logo? Im helping out a buddy with a project and promised him, ill find sb on the internet to do a cool logo from about 10-30 bucks.
( like the logo from surgewofl, a brand logo!)
I know fiverr, but maybe sth different/alternative?
Fiverr or from a graphic designer my man. I make all my logos n junk though
I’ll throw my voice in about BMR and wash my dirty washing in public
..yes it does rank big kw’s but they fade after about 4 washes.. 8 weeks to me, not that much into personal hygiene 🙂
hey Alex, what other ways you check the number of searches other than google keyword, i found some keywords that google says has more than 10k searches per month on exact, and on serpiq(great tool btw, check it out, says according to semrush info that it has only around 1500 searches per month)
would you still go for such keyword for a main keyword for a new site?
thanks!
I trust google keyword’s tool search numbers more then other tools since they made it much more accurate by the end of 2010. Anyway, ultimately no # is perfect and if you truly wnat ot be sure do some adwords campaigns and test the # of impressions you get for a search result on google’s search page per day. That’s what I used to do back in 2010 when the tool was wildly inaccurate (compared to now).
I’m testing out BB as well right now, I’ll let you know when I got some real results.
I also want to look into AMR though, do you just send the majority of your links to your main site?
ya, though I’m testing Senukex currently and I’ll probably use AMR to send links to senukeX web 2.0. But ya, saw ranking changes making links to my main website.
Hi Alex,
Just want to know whether article ranks and linkamotion is effective enough to increase the link popularity of a blog.
I usually check the link popularity using checkpagerank.net and I pretty confuse on how can I increase the link popularity. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot Alex.
well I don’t really think that’s a great value to follow because it is HIGHLY inaccurate but yes both will increase that link count, keep in mind from my experience yahoo barely shows 10% or less of the total links you might truly have
Hey Alex
What type of articles do you use for EZA?
Do you use ultraspinnable minis or do you use articles spun specifically on topic with the site you are linking to in the article?
thanks dude!
I would use minis if the subject matches but often it does not, in that case I either get an article written or I use a PLR article that I get spinned.
Hey Alex,
Just bought BMD through your affiliate link! Still offering the list of sites with the purchase?
Yes of course :). Email me!
Not sure if you’ve seen Shane Malaugh’s site at imimpact.com but he reviewed a bunch of blog networks extensively. I can personaly say that Article Ranks and Traffic Kaboom mixed with AMR is wicked effective.
Yup, I like AR and TK. I saw results with both at this point. I’ve been using TK over the past 2 months and while I did not see amazing results it’s worth a try when you exhausted other networks that I like better (such as EZA)
Alex, if comparing AMR to UAW for article ‘blasts’, which would you recommend?
Consider I am spinning my articles thoroughly so TBS generates a lot super unique articles for me and I understand I can use the spintax in AMR. On the other hand UAW only spins at the paragraph level, correct?
So won’t the mediocre uniqueness of the articles submitted with UAW make a lot of the articles submitted useless for backlink power (google will filter them out as dups)?
More over, don’t AMR and UAW basically do the same thing (blast articles) except UAW costs a ton more over time and in turn we get some mediocre paragraph spinning there and not much more over a good one time fee blasting software?
With your articles list for AMR, assuming I have good articles to blast (very readable), how many of the directories are still live and accepting articles? In other words is this tool still working? Not sure when the author last bothered to update the software..
Opinion appreciated, thanks!
Duplicates is not all that important in terms of backlinks, it’s mostly important you have unique articles on your own website. Also, UAW DOES use custom spinning like AMR, { | }. you just need to copy the exact same article with the spin syntax in all 3 boxes.
As for UAW vs AMR. I find UAW grossly overpriced for the net result. I would use it 1-2 months at most once you have a lot of sites to get links from and then not bother again for a year (or never). I like AMR for it’s one time fee. I use it in 2010 and I still do in 2012. Is it a super effective tool? Nah, it’s not the best and I do seem to have a lower number of successful websites but for the one time price it’s still worth it for me. I also don’t need to do anything special for my AMR submissions, since it accepts basic spin syntax like anywhere else.
Thanks Alex. Yes I also figure that $67/m just for article directory blasts and nothing else is a bit much. I’ll probably check out some one time fee software as you mentioned (or maybe test sliq submitter which is way cheaper per mo. etc).
Thanks!
Hmm ya Sliq submitter might work well. I already had AMR by the time I tried Sliq (So I skipped using it for articles, I was only using for profile/bookmark links back then for me). The only problem with sliq is you might have to pay extra for article directory packets or learn to harvest your own.
Did you mean Sick Submitter in your last comment? Sliq Submitter only does directory submissions. However there is now a SliQ Article Submitter which does article submissions (WordPress, Dashboard, Friendly etc.). Have you tried that out?
Ya you’re right, I meant Sick submitter :P. I use SLIQ for directory submission